Isaiah 17 (NET)

Isaiah 17:1¹This is an oracle about Damascus: “Look, Damascus is no longer a city, it is a heap of ruins!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 1:3-5Zech 9:1Isa 25:2Acts 9:2Gen 14:15Isa 7:8Jer 49:2Jer 49:23-27Mic 1:62 Chr 28:23

Isaiah 17:2²The cities of Aroer are abandoned. They will be used for herds, which will lie down there in peace.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 25:5Jer 7:33Deut 2:36Mic 4:4Num 32:34Zeph 2:6Deut 3:12Jer 48:19Isa 5:17Isa 7:21

Isaiah 17:3³Fortified cities will disappear from Ephraim, and Damascus will lose its kingdom. The survivors in Syria will end up like the splendor of the Israelites,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 9:11Isa 7:16Isa 8:4Isa 7:8Mic 1:4-92 Kgs 16:92 Kgs 17:6Amos 2:6-9Amos 3:9-15Amos 5:25-27

Isaiah 17:4⁴“At that time Jacob’s splendor will be greatly diminished, and he will become skin and bones.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:16Deut 32:15-27Ezek 34:20Isa 10:4Isa 24:13Isa 24:16Isa 9:21Isa 9:8Zeph 2:11

Isaiah 17:5⁵It will be as when one gathers the grain harvest, and his hand gleans the ear of grain. It will be like one gathering the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:30Jer 51:33Joel 3:132 Sam 5:18Rev 14:15-202 Sam 5:22Matt 13:39-42Hos 6:11Isa 17:11Jer 9:22

Isaiah 17:6⁶There will be some left behind, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches,” says the Lord God of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 24:13Deut 4:27Judg 8:2Obad 1:5Rom 11:4-6Rom 9:271 Kgs 19:18Ezek 36:8-15Ezek 37:19-25Ezek 39:29

Isaiah 17:7⁷At that time men will trust in their Creator; they will depend on the Holy One of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 7:7Hos 6:1Hos 3:52 Chr 30:10-112 Chr 30:18-202 Chr 31:12 Chr 35:17-18Hos 14:1-3Isa 10:20-21Isa 19:22

Isaiah 17:8⁸They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 30:22Isa 27:9Isa 2:8Mic 5:13-142 Chr 14:52 Chr 34:42 Chr 34:6-7Exod 34:13Ezek 36:25Hos 10:1-2

Isaiah 17:9⁹At that time their fortified cities will be like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, which they abandoned because of the Israelites; there will be desolation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 3:11-15Isa 27:10Amos 7:9Hos 10:14Hos 13:15-16Isa 17:4-5Isa 24:1-12Isa 28:1-4Isa 6:11-13Isa 7:16-20

Isaiah 17:10¹⁰For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:18Isa 26:4Jer 2:32Ps 106:21Deut 32:4Hos 13:6-7Deut 32:31Hos 8:14Isa 12:2Isa 51:13

Isaiah 17:11¹¹The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 8:7Job 4:8Gal 6:7-8Hos 10:12-15Hos 9:1-4Hos 9:16Isa 18:5-6Isa 65:13-14Jer 5:31Joel 1:5-12

Isaiah 17:12¹²Beware, you many nations massing together, those who make a commotion as loud as the roaring of the sea’s waves. Beware, you people making such an uproar, those who make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 6:23Luke 21:25Ps 18:4Ezek 43:2Rev 17:1Rev 17:15Isa 28:17Isa 5:26-30Isa 8:7-8Ps 29:3

Isaiah 17:13¹³Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 9:5Isa 41:15-16Job 21:18Ps 1:4Isa 29:5Dan 2:35Hos 13:3Isa 10:15-16Isa 10:33-34Isa 14:25

Isaiah 17:14¹⁴In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:35Prov 22:232 Kgs 19:3Ezek 39:10Hab 2:16-17Isa 10:28-32Isa 33:1Jer 13:25Jer 2:3Job 20:29